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7. DEGENERATING ECOSYSTEM: COMMON MISTAKE BY THE PADMA BHU-
SHAN AND PADMA SHREE AWARDEE AND NOTED ENVIRONMENTALIST SHRI
ANIL JOSHI
To discuss the irresponsible human activities that are damaging the environment and what measures could
be adopted to stop this wave of destruction, a webinar was held on 2 November 2020 and attended by all
the teachers of the school. It’s our foremost responsibility to leave behind a beautiful planet for our future
generation, this goal can only be achieved as a result of concerted efforts of the present generation to save
the environment.

8. HOW TO BE A WOW ONLINE EDUCATOR: DR DHEERAJ MEHROTRA, NA-
TIONAL AWARDEE EDUCATOR
The webinar was held on 2 November 2020, to acquaint the teachers with unconventional methods that
can achieve students who are motivated, concentrated and turn out as fast learners. The whole idea was
to ‘create a WOW atmosphere’ in the online virtual classrooms. A huge plethora of ways and ideas were
discussed with their practical possibilities in the classroom.

9. TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT:
DR RAJESH HASSIJA
Dr Hassija in his talk highlighted that in addition to supporting learning across content areas, technol-
ogy-enabled assessments can help reduce time, resources, and disruption to learning required for the
administration of paper assessments. The webinar was held on 25 November 2020 guiding teacher to use
technology driven tools to get a more complete and nuanced picture of students’ needs, abilities and inter-
ests.

10. STRESS AND ANGER MANAGEMENT: SISTER BK SHIVANI, SPIRITUAL
TEACHER
A devotional lecture was given by Sister B K Shivani on 26 November 2020 through a webcast. “Take out
time, relax, observe, listen, look, contemplate upon your thoughts and rediscover their futility if they cause
anger and stress as they destroy the peaceful condition of the soul”. These were her key words to motivate
and positively influence the educators to become ideals and role models for the students.

11. 4 DIMENSIONAL FRAME WORK FOR CLASSROOMS: DR AMEETA MULLA
WATTAL, NATIONAL AWARDEE
In her webinar on 16 December 2020, the speaker discussed about the four dimensions that include
knowledge, skills, character and metacognition. The new framework of curriculum will focus on these four
dimensions to polish the learners’ ability for in-depth study and understanding along with appreciation of
their physical surrounding.

12. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO ENHANCE THE LIFE SKILLS: DR
USHA RAM
The webinar was held on 12 January2021. Dr Usha Ram focused on role of laughter in managing stress
and conflicts. She highlighted that communication is a two way process where one must develop the skills
of listening to others. As a teacher, she added that there is a need to communicate in clear, respectful and
non-judgemental way with the students for their clear understanding of what we want to convey to them
and impart to them as teachers.

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